Josie, Perri, and Kat have been inseparable best friends since third grade -- the athlete, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen, and the popular beauty with a heart that is open to all around her. They live in an affluent suburb of Baltimore and enjoy privileges many teenagers are denied. But on the final day of school one of them brings a gun with her. And when the police break down the door of the high school girls' bathroom, locked from the inside, they find two of the friends wounded, one of them critically -- and the third girl is dead. This was my first stand alone title by Laura Lippman. It is so different than her Tess Monaghan series that I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it or not. Plus with the main storyline told from the point of view of a teenager I was worried it might be too angst driven. But boy was I wrong as the story unfolds I begun to see the complexity of these 3 girls and how their lives intertwined until the tragic ending. Is there really a bad person in this story, I'm not really sure.
I'm a fan of Laura Lippman because of her series but now I'm a fan of her stand alones as well.